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A couple of days ago I started using Google’s web browser, Chrome.  First of all, I must say that I am impressed, really really impressed with it.  However, mailto links didn’t seem to be working.  Naturally, I googled…

Just about every single result from my searching was about how to have Chrome use Gmail to open mailto links.  Pfft.  C’mon people, email is a text thing, not a web thing.  When will you learn?  I wanted a SXEmacs frame to pop up with a Gnus mail buffer loaded with the details from the mailto link.  I can do that with Firefox.  I can do that with just about any mozilla based browser.  So I should be able to do it in Chrome, right?

Yes of course I can.  Here’s how…

1. Get xdg-utils if you don’t already have it.
2. Get my mozmail.el which is in the XEmacs “net-utils” package.
3. Configure mozmail.el (there are instructions in the file itself and you can skip everything about making changes to your browser)
4. Start Chrome like this:  BROWSER=mozmail.sh google-chrome

And believe it or not, that’s it.

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1. Horst Günther Burkhardt III says:

   2009/12/12 at 1:52 am

   To make this an even more elegant solution:

   You’ll probably find that google-chrome is a shell script pointing to /opt/google/bin/chrome … in which case you’ll be able to edit the shellscript accordingly!

   Twitter: HorstBurkhardt
   • SteveYoungs says:

     2009/12/12 at 1:09 pm

     I don’t see that as “elegant” at all.

     What happens the next time you upgrade Chrome? You’ll have to re-edit every time. My solution requires no edits or changes to anything. Once you set it up, it works, and doesn’t stop working simply because you upgrade your browser.

     Twitter: SteveYoungs
2. TheInfoPreneur says:

   2009/12/13 at 12:33 am

   Hi Steve,

   I have had my wave account and as such I started to use Chrome, I too was initally impressed but I still prefer firefox, watching some videos is impossible in chrome, but I am sure they will sort this in time.

   Good post Steve
   • SteveYoungs says:

     2009/12/13 at 1:06 am

     Hi James!

     Great to see you back, mate. Yeah, Chrome is still lacking in a few places (I really miss my sidebar), but sadly Firefox isn’t an option for me. It doesn’t run here at all, the pig crashes before it even starts.

     BTW, I’m `jackalx@googlewave.com’ on Google Wave, feel free to add me to your contacts.

     Twitter: SteveYoungs